Ann Douglas is an American literary historian who specializes in intellectual history.
She is the Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
[1][5] Her research interests include 20th-century American intellectual and cultural history.
[2] Douglas received two fellowships from the National Humanities Center in 1978 and 1979 after publishing The Feminization of American Culture (1977), controversial for its criticism of what she saw as the age's feminine sensibilities,[2] and 1993-1994 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993.
[11] Douglas was married to fellow historian Peter H. Wood before divorcing.